nadarkhani has been in prison more than 860 days, he has rejected offerers to recant his christian nafaith. jordan, how soon might this execution take place? >> if you look back the last time this happened to a christian pastor in iran, it was 1990. very similar to the time line we have, the legal team in iran was trying to get documents in the courts. this case went to the ayatollah. the court didn't want to issue an order. supreme court took the appeal, sent it back to say was he muslim enough. he had muslim blood. in that case in 1990, it delayed for a couple of weeks. they department get the certificate of death or execution order on paper until they got the paper. these attorneys in iran, this is their specialty. they would never contact us on monday with this news. we worked on it for 24 hours. george, look back what happened since we covered this story, early fall, late summer, white house state department took much more time before engaging. now two days before the we have statements from the most powerful office. >> he is a muslim that represents a lot of christians like this conv